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radicalism
[ rad-i-kuh-liz-uhm ]
noun
- extreme views or practices, or the tendency to favor them, as in politics or religion; extremism:
In the long term, the peace we seek will only be achieved by eliminating the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of violence.
radicalism
/ ˈrædɪkəˌlɪzəm /
noun
- the principles, desires, or practices of political radicals
- a radical movement, esp in politics
- the state or nature of being radical, esp in politics
Derived Forms
- ˌradicalˈistically, adverb
- ˌradicalˈistic, adjective
Other Words From
- an·ti·rad·i·cal·ism noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of radicalism1
Example Sentences
The series’ snapshot of the friends’ young-adult struggles include their efforts to obtain contraception, some of their former classmates hardening into radicalism, and Lila and Lenu’s small children growing wiser to the dysfunctions around them.
It takes activism seriously, pushing past the idea that same-sex marriage was its final destination and leaning into radicalism.
To check in with how you may dismiss things for their pendulum-swing radicalism too easily, and not find ways to offer yourself to the balance that will lead the justifiable equality of men and women forward.
Biographers, as Nersessian notes, have demonstrated that Keats entertained radical political ideas, but the radicalism did not make it into many of the poems, and certainly not into these poems.
For Enninful, there is no limitation to the radicalism possible through his line of work.
The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.
Worse, the procedural radicalism of the GOP threatens to cause another crisis at some point in the future.
Akkari, once infected by with the virus of radicalism, now possesses all the curiosity of a university student.
Even if violence and radicalism don't cross the border, the cost of the refugee crisis is becoming unbearable for them.
But one of the biggest factors that has helped the growth of British Islamic radicalism is marriage.
Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."
In some men of warm religious feeling the Revolution excited a fervent spirit of Radicalism.
Furthermore, the increased radicalism of the few was more than counterbalanced by the intensified conservatism of the many.
Here the glise philosophique met regularly to discuss its doctrines and publish its propaganda of radicalism.
They come into power flushed with success, and are themselves the very dregs of radicalism.
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